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You can help by keeping high vents open for your warm wet breathe to escape (an adult supposedly generates a pint of fluid a night) and enable cool air to come in low down to maintain an airflow. Pegging out the base of a door or raising the edge of the flysheet (on a non-sig tent will help). If you have mesh in the inner tent door, leave a little open at the open to help airflow. Keep wet items etc out of the tent and any moisture generating cooking or heating appliances - as this adds to the moisture level. If condensation is bad (usually worst in autumn IMHO) your bedding will feel damp. BTW if you are too warm in bed, your sweat can add to the moisture levels.

A tarp under the tent (not sticking out though) should actually help as long as you can still have low level ventilation. The tarp will prevent moisture from the ground adding to the moisture in the tent.

If the inner has a mesh roof as with our Coleman Rock Springs 4 so condensation drips through, then you could make a condensation catcher (if it would work with a pop-up). This is a piece of inner tent lightweight fabric in the shape of the mesh suspended half way down the inner tent suspension points - so allowing warm air to escape, but catching any dripping condensation.

Quote: Originally posted by Speedcamp on 31/5/2011

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 BTW if you are too warm in bed, your sweat can add to the moisture levels.

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I have to agree with Speedcamp, cos sometimes my OH's side of top layer feels damp, but my side is fine.

He just runs hotter than me!